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Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by ebbflowgo »

davemo wrote: post #4

I've been working on a screencast series that should get you up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly; I've got 3 parts so far: * Part 1: Intro to Angular JS (50 minutes) [1] * Part 2: End to End with Angular JS (52 minutes) [2] * Part 3: Security with Angular JS (30 minutes) [3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c [3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifo…

I would watch them if they focused on a single topic and were from 5 - 10 mins

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by davemo »

jeffcunningham wrote: post #5
davemo wrote: post #4

I've been working on a screencast series that should get you up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly; I've got 3 parts so far: * Part 1: Intro to Angular JS (50 minutes) [1] * Part 2: End to End with Angular JS (52 minutes) [2] * Part 3: Security with Angular JS (30 minutes) [3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c [3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifo…

I'll add those later today. Thanks!

I submitted a PR on github with those and one more link on Authentication with Angular :)

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by davemo »

ebbflowgo wrote: post #11
davemo wrote: post #4

I've been working on a screencast series that should get you up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly; I've got 3 parts so far: * Part 1: Intro to Angular JS (50 minutes) [1] * Part 2: End to End with Angular JS (52 minutes) [2] * Part 3: Security with Angular JS (30 minutes) [3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c [3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifo…

I would watch them if they focused on a single topic and were from 5 - 10 mins

You would probably like John Lindquists screencasts at http://www.egghead.io then; I took a more comprehensive approach to try and show how all the pieces of angular fit together.

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by davemo »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #10
davemo wrote: post #4

I've been working on a screencast series that should get you up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly; I've got 3 parts so far: * Part 1: Intro to Angular JS (50 minutes) [1] * Part 2: End to End with Angular JS (52 minutes) [2] * Part 3: Security with Angular JS (30 minutes) [3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c [3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifo…

End-to-end sounds interesting! Thanks for creating this. I'll watch these tonight! I've been playing with Angular for a lil bit. The things that frustrate me as a learner are: 1) Lack of good end-to-end examples. 2) Situations where things just don't work, and give no feedback as to what went wrong. Am I just using Angular JS incorrectly or does this happen to everyone?

The end to end video covers building a single page app with angular backed by mysql and laravel 4. It should give you some practical examples to work from, and all the source code for all videos is included on github too.

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by taybul »

throwaway1979 wrote: post #10
davemo wrote: post #4

I've been working on a screencast series that should get you up to speed on AngularJS pretty quickly; I've got 3 parts so far: * Part 1: Intro to Angular JS (50 minutes) [1] * Part 2: End to End with Angular JS (52 minutes) [2] * Part 3: Security with Angular JS (30 minutes) [3] [1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE [2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqAyiqUs93c [3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ifo…

End-to-end sounds interesting! Thanks for creating this. I'll watch these tonight! I've been playing with Angular for a lil bit. The things that frustrate me as a learner are: 1) Lack of good end-to-end examples. 2) Situations where things just don't work, and give no feedback as to what went wrong. Am I just using Angular JS incorrectly or does this happen to everyone?

While learning Angular, it pays to really understand how the $scope works, when $watch'es are fired, and when you need to explicitly call an $apply, etc. What are some examples where things just don't work? While I was learning angular, a lot of times I had assumed things were available in scope when they were not. Some built-in directives like ng-repeat will create local copies of scope so I would try to change a variable directly expecting the parent to pick it up but it won't. Now my issues are simply misuse of the APIs. Eventually you will "get" the way angular works and instinctively know how to write with it.

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by matt__ring »

Jeff, thanks! I was in analysis paralysis over how to handle some new functionality & this pushed me over the edge toward trying angularJS. So far, so good...

BTW, I bought the two cheapest ebooks in your list. Hope you got a piece! The 'Recipes' one has been the most handy so far.

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by jeffcunningham »

matt__ring wrote: post #16

Jeff, thanks! I was in analysis paralysis over how to handle some new functionality & this pushed me over the edge toward trying angularJS. So far, so good... BTW, I bought the two cheapest ebooks in your list. Hope you got a piece! The 'Recipes' one has been the most handy so far.

Matt...glad you found it helpful. I haven't purchased the Recipes book yet, but I might after seeing your feedback.

I've purchased the AngularJS Oreilly book (good, not great...it just didn't feel like a well-organized book to me) and the Packt book (Web Application Development with AngularJS)..the Packt book is excellent. At least for the first 5 chapters I've read. Oh, and I have no "referral" params for any of those books.

I'm personally really excited about getting to work with Angular. It has been a lot of fun so far, and its amazing how much you can do with a small amount of code.

Re: AngularJS Learning Resources

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Post by throwaway1979 »

taybul wrote: post #15
throwaway1979 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

End-to-end sounds interesting! Thanks for creating this. I'll watch these tonight! I've been playing with Angular for a lil bit. The things that frustrate me as a learner are: 1) Lack of good end-to-end examples. 2) Situations where things just don't work, and give no feedback as to what went wrong. Am I just using Angular JS incorrectly or does this happen to everyone?

While learning Angular, it pays to really understand how the $scope works, when $watch'es are fired, and when you need to explicitly call an $apply, etc. What are some examples where things just don't work? While I was learning angular, a lot of times I had assumed things were available in scope when they were not. Some built-in directives like ng-repeat will create local copies of scope so I would try to change a va…

Thx for the kind words of encouragement. There is something elegant about angular and I'm going to keep slogging on. I think you're spot on about mechanisms .. I don't grok how angular does its magic and I think that is a big problem for me. Any suggestion on how one goes about learning Angular internals sans looking at the source code?

I used Angular for two hackathons so far and didn't keep track of what didn't work. It was just a matter of ... let me try something a different way ... and poof ... it worked. Not very scientific I'm afraid.

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